Pope resigns
Claims it is due to old age, but I suspect it has more to do with him covering up the kiddy fiddling scandal.

Just the tip of the iceberg. Add the raid of the endowment care fund by Cardinal Roger Mahony to pay out those lawsuits he helped cover up. So now there is no money to keep up Catholic cemeteries. They will fall into disrepair. There is no way this multi-million dollar raid wasn't done with the permission of the Pope. If Catholic cemeteries were subject to the same rules as all others and they did this, the Pope as well as Mahony would already be in jail awaiting trial. Hope none of your relatives are buried there! Next thing Mahony will do is sell the land to developers and they will just dig them up. Mahony already did this when he built his cathedral on an native American burial ground!

The Archdiocese of L.A. took $115 million from its cemeteries' maintenance fund in 2007, nearly depleting it. The move seems legal, but it was not announced, and relatives of the dead were not told.

Pressed to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to settle clergy sex abuse lawsuits, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony turned to one group of Catholics whose faith could not be shaken: the dead.

Under his leadership in 2007, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles quietly appropriated $115 million from a cemetery maintenance fund and used it to help pay a landmark settlement with molestation victims.

The church did not inform relatives of the deceased that it had taken the money, which amounted to 88% of the fund. Families of those buried in church-owned cemeteries and interred in its mausoleums have contributed to a dedicated account for the perpetual care of graves, crypts and grounds since the 1890s.

Mahony and other church officials also did not mention the cemetery fund in numerous public statements about how the archdiocese planned to cover the $660-million abuse settlement. In detailed presentations to parish groups, the cardinal and his aides said they had cashed in substantial investments to pay the settlement, but they did not disclose that the main asset liquidated was cemetery money.

The Archdiocese of L.A. took $115 million from its cemeteries' maintenance fund in 2007, nearly depleting it. The move seems legal, but it was not announced, and relatives of the dead were not told.

Pressed to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to settle clergy sex abuse lawsuits, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony turned to one group of Catholics whose faith could not be shaken: the dead.

Under his leadership in 2007, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles quietly appropriated $115 million from a cemetery maintenance fund and used it to help pay a landmark settlement with molestation victims.

The church did not inform relatives of the deceased that it had taken the money, which amounted to 88% of the fund. Families of those buried in church-owned cemeteries and interred in its mausoleums have contributed to a dedicated account for the perpetual care of graves, crypts and grounds since the 1890s.

Mahony and other church officials also did not mention the cemetery fund in numerous public statements about how the archdiocese planned to cover the $660-million abuse settlement. In detailed presentations to parish groups, the cardinal and his aides said they had cashed in substantial investments to pay the settlement, but they did not disclose that the main asset liquidated was cemetery money.

I am aware you feel bad for me. I've come across your kind many times before. You simply cannot see how your belief is a terrible thing that stops you living a truly moral life. You can't be truly moral because you are following a set of rules without really understanding what it is all about. You only care about what comes in the next life, so you don't put the effort you should into making this world a good place.

You judge others, and you presume to think you have all the correct answers. You are filled with hate for anything you don't understand or fear and then you hide behind a book written nearly 2000 years ago without even reading it properly.

If you really were like Jesus, you would be spending time with the outcasts of society and helping them just like he did instead of hating them and judging them.Reality Internet Personality

I am aware you feel bad for me. I've come across your kind many times before. You simply cannot see how your belief is a terrible thing that stops you living a truly moral life. You can't be truly moral because you are following a set of rules without really understanding what it is all about. You only care about what comes in the next life, so you don't put the effort you should into making this world a good place.

You judge others, and you presume to think you have all the correct answers. You are filled with hate for anything you don't understand or fear and then you hide behind a book written nearly 2000 years ago without even reading it properly.

If you really were like Jesus, you would be spending time with the outcasts of society and helping them just like he did instead of hating them and judging them.

(There is a third ground, she's probably far too young as most recent Popes have been knocking on in years.)Bob Smith
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